Sparc Europe's New Strategy 2016-2020

Sparc Europe's New Strategy 2016-2020

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  SPARC Europe´s Strategy Thenew strategy to reflect the changing landscape and the drive towards Open Scholarship (publications, data, software, educational resources etc) • Member and SPARC Europe Board input have fed into the development of the strategy. • In addition, we have also conducted studies into current international developments in Open Access and Open Scholarship. • We have also listened to funders, policy makers and library stakeholder opinions across Europe on areas for further development in the areas of Open Access and Open Scholarship.
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  The Scope • OpenScholarship in Europe: – Open Access to Publications – Open Peer Review, – Open Data – Open Educational Resources – Research Evaluation – Research Integrity
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  The Vision Driving tomake more research accessible to all, and striving to make Open the default in Europe: For the benefit of the academic community, education, industry, innovation and for society.
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  The mission Our missionis to provide leadership to Europe’s research community to enable more access to Europe’s research for all.
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  Target Groups • Primarytarget groups – Europe’s research policy makers at the EC, European Council, national research funders – Europe’s research communities including research administrators and senior university management, associations of universities – The European academic library community • Secondary target groups: – European and global organizations working for Open Scholarship
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  Goals • To supportpan-European and national Open Scholarship agendas in the areas of – OA to publications, – Open Data, – Open Software, OER, – research evaluation and – research integrity,
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  Goals To provide leadershipacross Europe for Open Scholarship in the longer term leveraging strong contacts with policy makers, funders and Europe’s research institutions.
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  Goals • To reinforceOpen Scholarship work across Europe for a more unified approach through increased collaboration with organisations , projects and initiatives such as – the Open Science Policy Platform, Science Europe, EUA, LIBER, EIFL, Knowledge Exchange and others by – seeking synergies, and acting as a connector, facilitator and broker to Open Scholarship organisations to create change.
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  Goals To encourage newnorms and practice for cultural change in academia in the area of Scholarly Communication – making Open the default.